Re: Did the public think of Imperial as Packard's replacement?

Posted by Packard53 On 2009/8/4 18:20:40

While Nance and other Packard people went to work for Lincoln, to say that 58 to 60 Lincoln styling was Predictor based, in my opinion is plain cow manure. I have never read any of Ed Blend books, but for him to make that statement, to me he doesn't know what he is talking about.
The original designer of the 58 to 60 Lincoln's was John Najjar.

The only styling feature that may have been borrowed from the Predictor was the roof line that is all. When it comes right down to it Dick Teague may have borrowed that roof design concept for Exner's styling staff. Take a close look at the Plymouth show car introduced at the 1956 Chicago Auto Show. The car was a station wagon called the Plainmans.

Teague had to have some inside connection with someone at Chrysler during that period of time because he went to work for Chrysler in 1957.

John F. Shireman